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Kok-Sing Tang – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: With a growing new materialism paradigm and research on multimodality, there is an increasing attention on the role of material objects in science teaching and learning. However, there is currently no available framework, coding scheme, or method of inquiry to specifically analyze the use of material objects in science meaning-making.…
Descriptors: Science Education, Classroom Communication, Semiotics, Affordances
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Davies, Dan; Beauchamp, Gary; Davies, Jason; Price, Ruth – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2020
Background: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a global network of data-sensing devices which pupils can access during science or other curriculum activities. Purpose: This article reports on a commissioned evaluation of a small-scale pilot project to explore the potential of the IoT combined with local sensors to enhance pupils' data interpretation…
Descriptors: Internet, Equipment, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science
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Chua, Jia Xun; Tan, Aik-Ling; Ramnarain, Umesh – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2019
Background: Nature of Science (NOS) is defined to be the epistemology of science, and comprised of distinctive defining aspects. The representation of these NOS aspects in school science textbooks is likely to affect how students understand NOS. Representation of NOS aspects can differ between topics even within the same textbook and these topical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Textbooks, Biology